>>congrats on your new D700. 3,000 clicks it's just a baby
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>The part that just dumbfounds me is when there are high
>actuations on the camera when it's still new. I've seen
>cameras on sale at various websites that have in the
>description, "just bought the camera 2 months ago. Only
>50,000 clicks." What in the world are people doing in
>order to get that many shutter clicks in such a short amount
>of time?

Often it's time lapse photography... it's super easy to get into the thousands very quickly. I've shot a couple of time lapse sequences, it's easy to take 3,000 photographs in a very short period of time... like in a couple of hours. Imagine what it takes when shooting all day or for a 24 hour period.

Very easy to rack up 50K exposures and have the camera look like it just came out of the box.

~Cheers, Allan~
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